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Table 1 Patient-, tumor-, and treatment-related characteristics

From: Overall survival according to immunotherapy and radiation treatment for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: a National Cancer Database analysis

  

All Patients (n = 44,498)

Immunotherapy (n = 5807)

Chemotherapy (n = 38,691)

p-value

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%

 

Sex

Male

24,693

55.5

3031

52.2

21,662

56.0

< 0.001

Female

19,805

44.5

2776

47.8

17,029

44.0

 

Age

18–59

13,849

31.1

1947

33.5

11,902

30.8

< 0.001

60–69

15,487

34.8

2060

35.5

13,427

34.7

 

70–79

12,224

27.5

1499

25.8

10,725

27.7

 

80+

2938

6.6

301

5.2

2637

6.8

 

Comorbidity

0

28,932

65.0

3889

67.0

25,043

64.7

< 0.001

1

11,280

25.3

1456

25.1

9824

25.4

 

> 2

4286

9.6

462

8.0

3824

9.9

 

Histology

Adenocarcinoma

26,202

58.9

4596

79.1

21,606

55.8

< 0.001

Non-adenocarcinoma

18,296

41.1

1211

20.9

17,085

44.2

 

Race

White

37,293

83.8

4950

85.2

32,343

83.6

< 0.001

Non-white

7205

16.2

857

14.8

6348

16.4

 

Insurance

Uninsured

1871

4.2

186

3.2

1685

4.4

< 0.001

Insured

42,627

95.8

5621

96.8

37,006

95.6

 

Facility Type

Academic

14,480

32.5

1913

32.9

12,567

32.5

0.48

Nonacademic

30,018

67.5

3894

67.1

26,124

67.5

 

Radiation

No Radiation

21,593

48.5

3344

57.6

18,249

47.2

< 0.001

EBRT

20,821

46.8

2235

38.5

18,586

48.0

 

SRT

2084

4.7

228

3.9

1856

4.8

 

Systemic Agent

Multi-agent chemotherapy

38,691

86.9

     

Immunotherapy

5807

13.1